The course of typhoid fever in levomycetin resistance of the causative agent of the disease

Kept under observation was a patient aged 21 years, who had come from India, from whose blood taken at day 45 typhoid fever a causative agent S. typhi resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin, polymyxin was isolated. The condition presented with fever of long duration (60 days), apparent intoxicatio...

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Published inLikars'ka sprava no. 3-4; pp. 177 - 178
Main Authors Varaksina, G F, Syvolap, V K, Korogod, S N, Riabchenko, L Ia
Format Journal Article
LanguageRussian
Published Ukraine 01.03.1995
Subjects
Acute Disease
Adult
Ancylostomiasis - ethnology
Ancylostomiasis - therapy
Chloramphenicol - antagonists & inhibitors
Combined Modality Therapy
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Humans
India - ethnology
Male
Typhoid Fever - ethnology
Typhoid Fever - therapy
Ukraine
Ukraine
India
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Summary:Kept under observation was a patient aged 21 years, who had come from India, from whose blood taken at day 45 typhoid fever a causative agent S. typhi resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin, polymyxin was isolated. The condition presented with fever of long duration (60 days), apparent intoxication, jaundice, development of appendicular symptoms and intestinal hemorrhage continueing for 10 days. Treatment with chloramphenicol, ampicillin, gentamicin, furazolidone appeared to be ineffective. Detoxicational and hemostatic therapies were tried. The patient resumed his health.
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ISSN:1019-5297